A Few More Days

I just need a few more days to be home with my girls I decided. This weekend was teachers' convention, so I was fortunate enough to have Thursday and Friday off to spend with the girls. Thursday we spent having lunch and spending the afternoon with my friend and her two daughters who are very good friends with my girls. That was great fun. Then Thursday evening we met up with Kory's cousin, wife and their kids who came down from Chinook MT. LOVE talking to them. They are good people.

Friday we put some flowers and little pumpkins on Dad's grave--I think this is the first time the girls have seen it--well I should say that Morgan has seen it up close. Syd wanted to stay in the van, so Morgan walked with me and we placed the flowers on his grave and talked about what the Purple Heart and Bronze Star Medal meant that are engraved on his headstone. On the way back to the van, Morgan realized how special her grandfather was as she did not see any other headstones with "BSM" engraved on them, and very few with "Purple Heart" on them. I then drove the girls by my grandparents graves. Then we picked up Mom and went to Build-a-Bear so Morgan could get her asthma/allergy safe bear. Very cute. Sydney got an elephant. Then we took Mom to lunch and went back to her house for a while and let the girls play. What a lovely day! That night, instead of scrapbooking as I had planned, I decided to go to the rodeo with Kory and the girls. We were meeting Kory's cousin and his family there. Syd was freaked when we walked into the arena--before even getting to her seats. Too much noise, too many people, plus clowns. By the time we got to our seats, she had seen a cowboy riding bareback on a bucking horse, and she was cheering and was hooked. It was great to see. Morgan cheered and would cover her mouth and gasp if it looked like somebody was going to get hurt. They thoroughly enjoyed it and want to go again very soon! So, we will be keeping our eyes peeled for rodeos.

The rest of the weekend has been great as well. We went to a wedding reception last night for a gal I work with, and it was lots of fun. We got a sitter for the girls and just had some us time surrounded by friends.

Once again, it's back to reality.